Suicide ( A Private Detective Mystery Series of crime mystery novels Book 9)

By B.A. Savage

Private Detective Alex French solves problems. And he's very good at what he does. But now the problem strikes too close to home.
Frank Smith, a respected personal injury lawyer who defends the less fortunate, is found dead from a gunshot wound in his home. His wife does not believe the medical examiner’s conclusion that he committed suicide and hires French to find out if he was murdered, and if so, by whom.
French swiftly plunges into a cover up leading to a web of deceit and a cold-blooded murder mystery for him to unravel.

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• Language: English
• Publisher: B.A. Savage
• Release date: May 11, 2015
• ISBN: 9781311877369

B.A. Savage

B.A. Savage has served as a Police Officer in the U.S. Marine Corps eight years and a private detective in Central Kentucky 20 years. Savage integrates his own life experiences and deliberations in his novels. It has always been his lifelong dream to write. He decided it was time for him to follow his dream.He is the author of more than twenty-five detective mysteries books, including the popular Randall Stone series.He and his wife Marcia live in Lexington, Kentucky. They have three grown children and four grandchildren.

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Suicide

B.A. Savage

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PUBLISHER’S NOTE

This novel is a work of fiction. Names, characters, businesses, organizations, places, events, and incidents either are the products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

Copyright © 2014 B.A. Savage

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Table of Contents

Chapter One

Chapter Two

Chapter Three

Chapter Four

Chapter Five

Chapter Six

Chapter Seven

Chapter Eight

Chapter Nine

Chapter Ten

Chapter Eleven

Chapter Twelve

Chapter Thirteen

Chapter Fourteen

Chapter Fifteen

Chapter Sixteen

Chapter Seventeen

Chapter Eighteen

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Chapter One

Behind the police tape, a white coroner’s van sat in front of the 400 block of Chestnut Road. It waited to collect the body of Frank Smith, an attorney for the law firm of Higgins and Higgins, father to two teenagers, girls, and a mother who wailed long and loud on Sunday.

Earlier in the day, according to the Fayette police, Frank’s maid was taking a shower. When she walked in the living room, she found Frank on the floor, with a gunshot wound to the head, and a revolver found near his body but not a note. He was 45.

The police are investigating Frank’s death as a suicide; Lieutenant Emerson said, adding that they do not expect to finish the investigation by next week.

As word of Frank’s death spread throughout the city, he long called home, the crowd swelled outside the police tape.

At 9:42 p.m., or roughly one hour after Frank’s maid called the police; officials said they performed lifesaving efforts on an unconscious Frank in his living room. His family members and friends surrounded the coroner’s white van.

The back door opened. Frank’s body was placed inside. As the van inched slowly down the street, through a crowd, Frank’s mother, Wendy, threw her hands in the air and screamed.

The subject of Frank and how he changed or not in recent weeks appeared to make his friends uncomfortable. They knew that Frank sustained minor injuries in March when he drove his sports utility vehicle off Clifton Road in Millville, Kentucky, where it landed some 78 feet below the roadside.

Earlier this month, Frank was arrested on suspicion of domestic violence. Reports at that time said Frank’s wife told the police that Frank had assaulted her during